plate tectonics: Bibliography

See E. M. Moores and R. J. Twiss, Tectonics (1995); B. F. Windley, The Evolving Continents (3d ed. 1995); K. C. Condie, Plate Tectonics and Crustal Evolution (4th ed. 1997); L. P. Zonenshain et al., Paleogeodynamics: The Plate Tectonic Evolution of the Earth (1997); see also N. Oreskes, ed., Plate Tectonics: An Insider's History of the Modern Theory of the Earth (2001).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Movement of the Continents
• Plate Boundary Conditions
• Development of Plate Tectonics Theory
• Bibliography

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